Leonid Kannegisser

Leonid Kannegisser (March 1896-1918) was an Imperial Russian Army artilleryman whose assassination of Petrograd Soviet Cheka chief Moisei Uritsky led to the "Red Terror".

Biography
Leonid Kannegisser was born in Nikolaev, Russian Empire (present-day Mykolaiv, Ukraine) to a wealthy Jewish family, and he became a cadet at the Mikhailov Artillery School of the Imperial Russian Army in 1913. From 1915 to 1917, he studied economics at the Petrograd Polytechnic Institute, and he helped in defending the Russian Provisional Government at the Winter Palace during the October Revolution of 1917. On 30 August 1918, Kannegisser assassinated Cheka chief Moisei Uritsky at the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs building with several gunshots to his head and body, and he was arrested by the Bolsheviks. Kannegisser killed Uritksy because his male lover, an officer in the army, had been executed by the Cheka. Kannegisser was executed for the assassination.